Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.

Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.

Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I am bigger than it," is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.